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> I can't think of anyone more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Bill & Melinda. What about this, though: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-

by palae 7y ago

> I can't think of anyone more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Bill & Melinda. What about this, though: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-winner-dollar10b-pentagon-contract/ https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-winner-dollar... "Late Friday, the Department of Defense announced that Microsoft has won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI. The decision was the culmination of a two-year process that also included Google, IBM, and Oracle, and where Amazon was long seen as the favorite. JEDI, potentially worth $10 billion over 10 years, has been positioned by the Pentagon as crucial to modernizing its use of technology—and making the US military more deadly. “We must improve the speed and effectiveness with which we develop and deploy modernized technical capabilities to our women and men in uniform,” DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy said in a statement. At an event launching the bidding process in early 2018, the department’s chief management officer, John H. Gibson II, told tech industry leaders that one priority was “increasing the lethality of our department.” "

segmondy 7y ago
Consider this, without scientists and engineers helping the US military, we would not have been able to defeat the evils of WWII. There were code breakers, bomb makers, plane makers, medical care and so many that helped the military industrial complex. This very internet we are using to share our ideas has deep roots from the military. Computers was really funded by the military, they needed to know how to calculate and blow ships and planes far away into pieces fast.
reallydontask 7y ago
I don't think that they are (Bill and Melinda) involved in the running of Microsoft these days. I think Bill has a seat at the board but that's about it (He's also a technical advisor, it would seem)
- palae 7y ago
  For sure, but I feel like he still has enough share of the company ("only" 1.3%, but that's a lot of money) that what they are doing is relevant to the discussion.

by palae 7y ago

segmondy 7y ago

Consider this, without scientists and engineers helping the US military, we would not have been able to defeat the evils of WWII. There were code breakers, bomb makers, plane makers, medical care and so many that helped the military industrial complex. This very internet we are using to share our ideas has deep roots from the military. Computers was really funded by the military, they needed to know how to calculate and blow ships and planes far away into pieces fast.

reallydontask 7y ago

I don't think that they are (Bill and Melinda) involved in the running of Microsoft these days. I think Bill has a seat at the board but that's about it (He's also a technical advisor, it would seem)

palae 7y ago
For sure, but I feel like he still has enough share of the company ("only" 1.3%, but that's a lot of money) that what they are doing is relevant to the discussion.